The Farrells are a power couple. Jean is a famous French political journalist; his wife Claire is known for her feminist activism. Their son is studying at a prestigious American university. Everything seems to be going well for them. But a rape accusation will shake this perfect social construct.
Sex and the challenge of destruction, sex and its wild urge are at the center of this powerful novel in which Karine Tuil questions the world of today, exposes the ruthless machinery of justice, and confronts us with our own fears. Because who can be sure that one day they won't fall into the same trap themselves?
"Writing about a case of rape in high society, Karine Tuil focuses on the era we live in, capturing the zeitgeist as precisely as an embroiderer. Balzac's novel of social criticism stamped with the hot iron of progress."
Le Point
“ Human Things is a masterful novel that points to the deterioration of relations between men and women, as well as the unpredictable nature of sexuality. An unforgiving portrait of contemporary social violence.”
L'Obs
" Human Affairs brilliantly sums up the whole story of fraud and abuse of power that is a product of our time. The Paris Bonfire of the Vanities."
Le Figaro Magazine